Squinting at Shadows

On a quiet night in 1989, the daughter of senatorial candidate Corbin Eddings is savagely murdered in her upscale Kenilworth home—while her family sleeps just rooms away. The case goes cold. The killer vanishes. And the tragedy fades into history.

Thirty-five years later, a shocking twist: the brother of the original prime suspect leaps to his death from the same room where the murder occurred. In his pocket—a single slip of paper bearing the name Zev Isom, an elusive figure connected to an international weapons trafficking ring.

FBI Special Agents Eileen Prado and Ira Fisher are assigned the cold case, but what begins as a straightforward investigation quickly unravels into a dark web of corruption, deceit, and power games that stretch from the shadowy arms trade in the small South American country of Suriname to the halls of the U.S. Congress.

As the agents peel back layers of political coverups and long-buried secrets, they confront a conspiracy involving high-level officials and a ghostlike puppet master whose reach seems to know no bounds. For Prado, haunted by memories of a near-fatal undercover assignment, the case becomes a personal reckoning. For Fisher, a former D.C. insider, it's a reminder of the brutal realities behind polished facades.

Gripping, layered, and disturbingly plausible, Squinting at Shadows is a high-stakes political thriller that exposes the deadly cost of silence—and the moral price of power. The novel is based on a true crime. The daughter of long-serving Senator Charles Percy of Illinois, and one-time presidential candidate, was murdered in the family home in 1966 during Percy’s initial run for the Senate. The details of the crime, which remains unsolved, are faithfully represented, and the author's 35 years in politics provide an informed and realistic foundation for the reader.